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arXiv:1210.4952

Transport of Entanglement

Manabu Machida, Vadim A. Markel, John C. Schotland

Published Oct 17, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We consider the propagation of two-photon light in a random medium. We show that the Wigner distribution of the two-photon wave function obeys an equation that is analogous to the radiative transport equation for classical light. Using this result, we predict that the entanglement of a photon pair is destroyed with propagation.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1210.4952

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